Mom to 3 great kids, I'm also an avid quilter and fabric collector

July 17, 2011

And then along comes Mary

I don't have such a good track record with Blocks of the Month. I'm sure it stems from me being a "start to finish" quilter. I like to finish a project before I start on the next one. So making a block and then waiting an entire month before the next one arrives (at which point I'm already immersed in another project) pretty much resigns the rests of the blocks to a project box.

I was going through my fabric closet last weekend and discovered some BOM treasures. Most of them are complete KITS by now!

I signed up for this Mary Engelbreit BOM from In Between Stitches when I visited Nicole in April 2008. When I found the box, I discovered that I had already completed 7 of the blocks!

This week I finished the last 5. And then I made 2 additional because I didn't like 2 of the blocks from the kit, but I got it done, it's cute and I still love the fabrics.

5 Comments

After taking 2 years to finish my first BOM for the same reasons, I've decided if I do another one I'll just save them all up and then do the quilt! Glad you got this finished, Lisa - what a cute, bright, summer quilt!
Cheers!

Very cute! You would go nuts in my quilting loft - I've got over 150 UFOs!! All categorized, in specific bins, listed on the computer, etc, etc. I'm an organizer - just a piecer! Lots of tops - not quilted! I guess I'm going to be one of "those" women we hear about at guild! "I bought this unfinished top at an estate sale - there were stacks of unfinished tops the family must not have wanted".... lol lol